SOLUTION: FOOD At the market, Meyer buys a bunch of bananas for $0.35 per pound and a frozen pizza for $4.99. The total for his purchase was $6.04, without tax. How many pounds of banana

Question 391280: FOOD At the market, Meyer buys a
bunch of bananas for $0.35 per pound
and a frozen pizza for $4.99. The total
for his purchase was $6.04, without tax.
How many pounds of bananas did
Meyer buy?
Answer by haileytucki(390) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First, subtract the pizza from the total:
6.04-4.99
Subtract 4.99 from 6.04 to get 1.05.
1.05 is left over.
since the bananas were .35 cents per pound:
(0.35)/(1.05)
Divide 0.35 by 1.05 to get 0.3333333333.
0.333 pounds of bananas were bought
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